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tended to supplement and not to encroacli 

 upon the Darwin memorial session of the 

 American Association. 



Section K — Physiology and Experimental 

 Medicine — of the American Association will 

 hold two sessions at Baltimore. At the first, 

 on Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Ludwig Hektoen, 

 of the University of Chicago, will give the 

 vice-presidential address on " Opsonins and 

 Other Anti-bodies." This will be followed by 

 a symposium on the " Regulation of Physical 

 Instruction in Schools and Colleges, from 

 the Standpoint of Hygiene." Those who 

 will take part are Dr. William H. Howell, 

 Dr. R. Tait-Mackenzie, Dr. Thomas A. 

 Storey, Dr. Frederic S. Lee and Dr. Theo- 

 dore Hough. At the second session, which 

 will be held on Wednesday afternoon, and is 

 a joint meeting with the American Physiolog- 

 ical Society, the Society of American Bac- 

 teriologists and the American Society of Bio- 

 logical Chemists, general papers will be pre- 

 sented by Dr. M. J. Eosenau, Dr. Lafayette 

 B. Mendel and Dr. Albion W. Hewlitt. 



Dues of Members of the American, Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. — The 

 permanent secretary of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science urges 

 all members of the association to make an 

 especial effort to pay their dues for the year 

 1909 before the first of January, and as far in 

 advance of that date as is now possible. He 

 calls the attention of members to the notice in 

 Science, No. 728, December 11, 1908, page 

 834, to the effect that the publishers of Sci- 

 ence will require members to pay the postage 

 on back numbers at the rate of one cent per 

 number provided they pay their dues after the 

 beginning of the year. It is most important 

 for the proper conduct of the business of the 

 association that dues should be paid promptly. 



8CIENTIFI0 NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Vienna Academy of Sciences has 

 elected M. Henri Poincare, the eminent mathe- 

 matician, to honorary membership. Among 

 the corresponding members elected is Dr. G. 

 H. Darwin, Plumian professor of astronomy at 

 Cambridge. 



Dk. Seegius Nawaschin, director of the 

 Botanical Garden at Kiev, has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the Munich Academy 

 of Sciences. 



M. Henneguy has been elected a member 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the 

 Section of Anatomy and Zoology in the room 

 of the late M. Giard. 



The gold medal awarded under the Shaw 

 Trust for Industrial Hygiene has been pre- 

 sented to Professor Galloway by the Royal 

 Society of Arts, " In recognition of his valu- 

 able researches into the action of coal dust in 

 colliery explosions, the outcome of which re- 

 searches has been the provision of means by 

 which the risk of such accident is materially 

 diminished, and a consequent great saving of 

 human life effected." 



Students of the senior class of the Medical 

 Department of the University of Buffalo, have 

 presented Dr. Roswell Park with a silver 

 service in honor of his completion of a quarter 

 of a century as professor of surgery in the 

 institution. 



Professor William Kent, until recently 

 dean and professor of mechanical engineering 

 in the L. C. Smith College of Applied Sci- 

 ences of Syracuse University, has accepted the 

 position of general manager of the Sandusky 

 Foundry and Machine Company, Sandusky, 

 Ohio. 



Dr. H. Morize has been appointed director 

 of the Rio de Janeiro Observatory in the room 

 of the late Professor L. Cruls. 



Me. Wilbue Wright, on December 18, again 

 broke, at Le Mans, the aeroplane records for 

 both duration and height of flight. In the 

 morning he remained in the air one hour, 

 fifty-three minutes and fifty-nine seconds, and 

 in the afternoon attained an altitude of 360 

 feet. 



The expedition to the Bismarck archipelago, 

 which was organized a year ago by the Prus- 

 sian ministry of education, has been unfortu- 

 nate in losing its leader. Dr. Emil Stephan, 

 who died in New Mecklenburg on May 25. 

 The leadership of the expedition has been 

 taken over by Dr. Kramer, whose former work 

 in the western Pacific is well known. 



